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Brad Gerstner (@altcap) on how he built Trump Accounts — a new program that gives every American baby a $1k investment account seeded by the U.S. Treasury:
“I didn’t hire any lawyers. I didn’t hire any lobbyists. I didn’t have somebody else go do the work for me. I showed up in Washington and I spent over 1,000 hours of my life over the last five years relentlessly building a coalition and a product to win.”
The inside story of how one VC took a dinner-table idea (proposed by his teenage son) all the way to the Oval Office… and into federal law. @eventidia reports 👇
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DC is a city filled with sclerotic barriers preventing anything from getting done.
So why was @altcap able to get Trump Accounts done?
Well, it turns out it’s a lot easier to go founder mode when this White house is “run by somebody who acts like a CEO.”
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For the next three years, every American baby will receive a $1k investment account.
This idea didn’t come from a think tank or lobbyist — it came from a VC (@altcap) and his son.
Here, our exclusive interview with Brad Gerstner, architect of ‘Trump Accounts.’ @eventidia 👇
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This is a 100% MUST READ
Dude Nails the rise and fall of VICE
Super informative to how the media ecosystem was spiking and how it changed
clav’s publicist wrote about how he got fired from vice
you are simply not prepared for @BCC_Mitchell's insider profile on the rise and fall of Vice
INCREDIBLE story of how Vice crashed and burned, from the inside, which I couldn't edit without laughing or being like "holy shit" multiple times
VICE was the most important media company of the last half century. it shaped a generation, then died. here, in the deepest insider profile of the 2010s media giant yet, some insight into why: it turned its back on the counterculture it birthed. new ripper from pirate wires:
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Correction: It has come to our attention that we have misidentified the cover figure from a 2004 Vice “Hate” issue as being a Klan member.
It’s actually, according to the great @Gavin_McInnes, “Terry Richardson’s manager Seth and he’s dressed like El Deuce of the Mentors.”
(That issue, as well as many of the anecdotes in @BCC_Mitchell’s piece, are still beautifully insane)
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As someone who now employs 20somethings, I often think about how nuts it was that my drug-addicted Vice bosses let me... edit a billion dollar website from my dorm room.
I wrote about the insanity and lessons I learned from my Vice days for @PirateWires
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.@JeffBezos — you asked, and we delivered.
Introducing the official Pirate Wires Bezos List: The Top 20 Founders Ranked by Wealth Created for Others. @huntryerson 👇
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